2019 will decide future of Igbo – Boss Mustapha

The Secretary to the Government of the Nigeria’s Federation (SGF), Mr. Boss Mustapha, has said that 2019 will determine the future of the Igbo people and that APC would support the region when the need arises.

He said that the South East people have the right to govern Nigeria because they are part and parcel of the nation.

Speaking at First leg of the South East rally for President Muhammadu Buhari, the SGG said that Buhari and All Progressives Congress (APC) would support the region when the need arises.

“The South East will overtake others after 2019,’’ he assured the people.

He said, “Buhari is a man of compassion and good heart and the people of South East know that Buhari would do more for them if given the support in 2019.

“2019 will make or mar the aspiration of Igbo nation. I am calling on the Igbo to make a paradigm shift and think seriously of their position.

“The presidency of Nigeria is negotiable and can only be done on position of strength and the strength of the Igbo will be determined by 2019 support for Buhari.’’

He urged Igbo people to use your entrepreneurial skills and strength to galvanise support for Buhari in 2019.

“The choice is that of the Igbo nation. What happens in 2019 will determine the future of the region and you can bet on the support of Buhari.’’

Proving the extent to which President Buhari is a honest and Godly man, and how he is not tribal bigot but a man with vision for Nigeria, Mr. Boss Mustapha explained that there are 18 Christian and 18 Muslim ministers in his government.

He added that powerful positions were conceded to the Christians and he listed them; the SGF, Head of Service, CBN Governor, Finance Minister, Petroleum Minister, Trade and Industry Minister as well as Vice President.

“Never in the history of Nigeria, that we would have SGF and Head of Service as Christians.  What else do we want?

“I see all manner of people aspiring to be President of Nigeria. Nigeria is not a banana country.  It requires strong and serious leadership like Buhari.

“Some of these aspirants cannot deliver up to 500,000 votes in their constituencies.

“This is the time for your decision,’’ he told the crowd.

The new National Chairman of APC, Comrade Adams Oshiomhole, described the organiser of the rally, Imo State Governor Rochas Okorocha as “Governor-General of governors’’ and a man with “power to organise, strategise and mobilise’’.

Oshiomhole, who is immediate past Governor of Edo State, said that the crowd that attended the rally was real and not what people post on the social media.

“Boss Mustapha, you will take the message to Mr. President in Abuja that what has happened here today is not a social media outing where one person will post 1,000 messages using different names.’’

Comrade Oshiohmole said that South East region had juicy positions in the last administration but did not make any impact on the people.

“These positions did not translate to the construction of second Niger Bridge nor roads. It is the nature of ‘People Deceiving People’,” apparently referring to opposition People’s Democratic Party (PDP).

He urged the people of the South East to dump PDP because it is a party that is deceiving the people, and “pikin deceiving pikin’’.

In his heart-rendering remarks, the host governor, Okorocha charged the governorship aspirants of APC in the entire South East region to go ahead working for their aspiration saying, “you will have my backing!”

Assuring the aspirants not to be deceived by governors of opposition parties who feign love for the APC President Muhammadu Buhari that they have been saying, “In 2019, we will vote for Buhari as President and vote for people of our choice as governors,” the People’s Governor, Okorocha said to the Igbo tribe that, “The whole of your votes should go to APC.  Vote APC’s Buhari as President and all APC candidates as governors, lawmakers up to the State Assembly.”

He added that, “Any governor of the South East who wants us to support him should leave his party and come to the APC.  If you cannot do that, you cannot have our support.”